Hospital order for Bridgend mum who drowned son Reid Steele
A mother drowned her two-year-old son in the bath because she believed her family were possessed by demons.Reid Steele died at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, on 12 August last year, a day after he was found injured in his bathroom.
Sentencing, Judge Michael Fitton QC said: "It is a profound human tragedy that it was you, who loved him so dearly, that caused that loss of life.He told her the evidence heard showed she was suffering from a "period of depression so severe and so intense that it led you to a delusional and psychotic state".
She had told her mother, Amanda Prescott, she had been "seeing lights" and told her "demons are dark and real".The night before Reid's death, the defendant had been on a camping trip with her church in New Quay, Ceredigion, but friends became concerned when she demanded to be immediately baptised. The defendant said she was "really worried" about her family, saying they had "creepy eyes" and adding that she had "problems with spirits" and "spirits had been touching her".
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